DMX died earlier this year at age 50 after a cocaine-induced heart attack and coma. 

His good buddy and colleague DJ Superior was in the White Plains hospital room when X passed.

He, along with one of X's uncles, said the last words the rap legend would hear on earth.  Superior gave X the chance to go out with a laugh.

"I would've been so happy if he got up. His uncle was on his knees saying, 'You don't gotta go yet,'" DJ Superior told The Sun.  "I was whispering in his ear and just saying, 'Rest man. I got you. I got your kids. But you got a lot of kids.' I think he was looking down laughing at that one."

DMX did have 15 kids.  And that's something you have to have a sense of humor about.